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her evil boss typically enjoyed spending his time torturing her.
    Man oh man. She was a fan of company retreats now.
    “I’ve never been on a boat,” she admitted, trying to hide her cheeky smile. She grabbed his hand and sat in the boat. She took a quick glance at her surroundings. She really regretted not bringing a camera to chronicle this moment. It was all so picturesque.
    After she was settled, Tae Hyun pushed the rest of the boat off the sleeping grass and onto the calm lake. He hopped in before it drifted off. He had a smirk on his face when he grabbed a wooden paddle. He penetrated the silky lake with his paddle, alternating between sides and stirring the water.
    He gazed up at the sunset colored sky and laughed. “I knew I’d have you sailing off into the sunset with me sooner or later,” he commented playfully, raising his brows with interest.  
    “Hah!” she replied with warm sarcasm. “Oh yeah, your constant courting has  finally paid off, my dear friend.” She took in a deep breath after she ended her spell of laughter.  She glanced around the rose colored lake, admiring everything within her circumference. “This is so nice.”
    It was probably how the rays of the sunset favored him but when Yoori returned her focus to Tae Hyun (who was also staring off at the lake) she could’ve sworn she felt her heart skip a beat. She liked how the light, instead of layering over him, somehow radiated over his smooth skin. Yoori couldn’t deny it. Kwon Tae Hyun looked  damn sexy paddling the boat as he stared off into the distance, his poignant gaze lost in a world of its own. 
    Everything was okay for a stare-fest – that was until he broke her trance when he averted his eyes back onto her. Noting her awe-like stare on him, he gave her an awkward look.
    “What are you thinking about?” 
    “ You ,” she answered mindlessly. 
    Her eyes bulged when she pried herself out of her unwarranted stupor.
    Shit!
    “I mean – you – you!” She struggled to find a plausible alternative for her blunt and unfiltered answer. Ahhhh , she thought. Her panicked mind ran in circles. 
    She then caught sight of a duck waddling beside them.  
    A flickering light bulb turned on.
    This was definitely not her best alternative but it was the only one she could think of in her state of panic. She was going to sound so effen stupid –
    “You—You—You stupid duck! Go faster!  You’re in our way!” 
    “ Quack …” was all the duck said as its big eyes gaped at a frenzied Yoori. Allowing a couple more soft quacks to escape its beak, it swam away in a panic, obviously terrified of Yoori. Not that she blamed it. 
    And a stunned silence was all that Tae Hyun said while he gawked at her in bewilderment. He was probably contemplating throwing her psychotic self off the boat. She didn’t blame him. She was contemplating it too. This was what she got for mentally admitting that the guy was sexy.
    “What the hell was that?” he finally asked, watching the duck disappear into the distance.  
    “I—I—I was afraid we were going to hurt it,” Yoori lied, shaking in her seat. She could see the flickering light bulb self-destructing in her state of awkwardness.
    “This isn’t a motorboat, assistant,” Tae Hyun deadpanned. “We’re going .7 miles per hour right now. I could’ve stopped the boat if you asked me to.” 
    “I—I know…” Yoori responded dimly, already contemplating suicide. She cursed her stupidity. 
    When he took inventory of the burning humiliation on her cheeks, a sneaky Tae Hyun hid a knowing smile. He pulled the paddle into the boat and proceeded to lay it beside him. Shortly after, he laid himself across the boat.  
    Suspended in the center of the lake, where different groups of ducks and geese were playing and swimming in the near distance, he casually said, “I can’t believe you made yourself look like an idiot because you didn’t want me to know you were staring.” He